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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Can Janet Yellen Save the Economy?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Janet Yellen’s is a name most Americans will recognize, even if they’re not quite sure why. She’s the former chair of the Federal Reserve and the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and now, she’s been nominated to serve as Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary.  If confirmed, Yellen will assume her new role during one of the greatest economic crises in a century. How would she guide Biden through the storm? Guest: Jordan Weissman, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, you.

0:01.6

Listening to your favorite podcast again.

0:04.9

A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?

0:06.7

My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.

0:09.9

I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.

0:13.2

It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.

0:15.7

There's a killer out there picking them off,

0:18.7

all while trying to frame me.

0:20.5

I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.

0:23.0

Someone is watching me.

0:24.2

I can feel it.

0:25.3

Is it you?

0:26.4

You. You. Now streaming only on Netflix.

0:34.0

If you pulled out the newspaper last week and looked at the headlines about

0:37.2

President-elect Biden's nominee for Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen,

0:41.5

there was this unmistakable air of celebration to a lot of the coverage.

0:46.3

Paul Krugman wrote a column he called Impraise of Janet Yellen.

0:50.4

A political morning newsletter simply exclaimed,

0:53.5

it's Yellen with an exclamation point for effect.

0:57.2

And the economist called the pic genius.

1:00.2

I think Yellen is well liked, right?

1:02.4

Like she's just like kind of a, she is a generally likeable human being.

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